If the laptop is yours, then you can unlock it when the hdd is internallyconnected to the laptop (in its original hdd bay) and reset/clear the hdd password in the CMOS. Never the less this will only work if you know the hdd password.

Next step:

1) If your system was originally sold including WindowsIf you would erase the hdd externally - you would also erase the (hidden)recovery partition. This recovery partition is necessary to reinstall theWindows (on this laptop) with all its necessary drivers - but without allprivate data and without all software installed after the laptop was startedthe first time. So if you do that, you make it more complicated to get thelaptop usable again....

2) If your system was originally sold/baught without a Windows licenseyou can proceed to erase it (after unlocking the hdd).

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If the laptop is protected with a hdd password (which you dont know), youneed to surch for "unlocking / resetting hdd password".

If the laptop is yours, then you can unlock it when the hdd is internallyconnected to the laptop (in its original hdd bay) and reset/clear the hdd password in the CMOS. Never the less this will only work if you know the hdd password.

Next step:

1) If your system was originally sold including WindowsIf you would erase the hdd externally - you would also erase the (hidden)recovery partition. This recovery partition is necessary to reinstall theWindows (on this laptop) with all its necessary drivers - but without allprivate data and without all software installed after the laptop was startedthe first time. So if you do that, you make it more complicated to get thelaptop usable again....

2) If your system was originally sold/baught without a Windows licenseyou can proceed to erase it (after unlocking the hdd).

***

If the laptop is protected with a hdd password (which you dont know), youneed to surch for "unlocking / resetting hdd password".

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